With its majestic "wings," this washbasin is a stunner. Sure, it's entirely impractical for resting your toothbrush, but, if the price were right, would you give the Lavabo a try in your bathroom?
Designed by Cappellini for the SAIE fair in Bologna, the basin was created with the help of 3-D software technology.
Said Giacomo Cappellini, “The shaping of surfaces in a three-dimensional space has been achieved thanks to the performance of CNC machines. This opens new prospects for the use of stone, marble and granite in fields where more ductile materials do still dominate incontestably."
From what we can tell, the Lavabo isn't in production yet, but we imagine there's plenty of high-end homes that will clamor for this ethereal addition.
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Comments (15)
Maybe great in a bar...
...but I wouldn't have it even in a powder room - it's much too pointy and it seems like anyone washing their hands would easily knock their elbows into those wings.
Conceptual art attempting to become a useful artifact?
Not happening... as neither.
Silly.
Emily
I am all about innovative design...but I just don't like this one.
I agree with bepsf, I could see it in a bar but I wouldn't want it in my house.
Nice but impractical, except in a chic hotel or bar as said.
It looks like an abstraction of Sister Bertrille. Nope.
How the heck does it work?
Wouldnt use it at home. But. It is the perfect basin for one our public baths here in Hamburg - the "Alsterschwimmhalle". Build 1973. Its roof is similar to that basin:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Hh-alsterhalle.jpg
definitely for chic commercial f&b places
Function and design need to work together. That is all design and no function.
It looks very impractical except for homes where people dont actually wash their hands....
I would have many bruises from those sharp corners but hopefully not an injured eye if I had to pick something off the floor.
It looks kinda cool, and I'll trust that water doesn't just spill out the back, but heavens, how would one clean that gap???
Do you remember that episode of "everybody loves raymond" where the mother-in-law created a sculpture...
I don't get it...
Glad I'm not the only one who thought of that, Bruce and Carder